Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH)

Janahit Gramin Sewa Samittee (JGSS) has extensive experience in improving access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services, particularly in earthquake- and disaster-affected communities of Sindhupalchok. JGSS has worked with communities, schools, health facilities and local governments to strengthen WASH infrastructure, promote hygiene and support sustainable community-led water management.

Key Achievements

• Supported Open Defecation Free (ODF) declaration
• Provided latrine kits to 2,438 households and constructed public, institutional, school and health-facility sanitation facilities.
• Constructed and rehabilitated 77 water supply schemes and supported to improve access to safe drinking water.
• Supported 522 households through 12 water supply systems and constructed 78 child-friendly taps and 12 water reservoirs.
• Prepared 90 Water Safety Plans (WSPs) and provided technical support to 20 drinking-water supply schemes.
• Conducted pre-, during- and post-construction capacity-building for 100 water supply schemes, strengthening community ownership and operation and maintenance.
• Reached 14,310 people through hygiene promotion, sanitation awareness and behaviour-change activities.
• Installed 2,500 household handwashing stations and 13 public handwashing stations during the COVID-19 response.
• Improved WASH facilities in 52 schools and Temporary Learning Centres, including safe water, sanitation and hygiene facilities.
• Trained 39 school and community personnel in basic plumbing skills and provided tool kits for local maintenance.
• Distributed water purification/filter systems to 4 secondary schools, 44 basic schools and 428 households.
• Constructed 1,020 household toilets and 20 school toilets, contributing to safer and healthier communities.
• Reached approximately 2,000 people through 45 hygiene promotion sessions, integrating disaster risk reduction and low-cost water treatment practices.
• Promoted gender- and child-friendly, disability-inclusive sanitation facilities in communities, schools and public institutions.
• Mobilized women, youth, Water Users and Sanitation Committees (WUSCs), schools and local stakeholders to strengthen community ownership and sustainable WASH services.

Major Partnerships

JGSS has implemented WASH and hygiene programmes with support from Oxfam in Nepal, UNICEF, SEBAC Nepal/USAID and other development partners.

Through these interventions, JGSS has contributed to safe drinking water, improved sanitation, hygiene behaviour change, ODF communities, stronger local WASH institutions and resilient WASH systems across disaster-affected communities of Sindhupalchok.